#25 Paul Ginsparg:  The godfather of open access publishing

Preprints have been circulated in the physics community since the
early 1950s but mostly among well-established professors.
Physicist Paul Ginsparg, who received the inaugural Einstein
Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research in the
Individiual Award category, set out to democratize access to
scientific results. Today, his preprint server arXiv accommodates
a broad array of fields — and has made scientific progress more
efficient and fairer. In this episode, he reflects on his
motivation to create arXiv.org back in 1991, the ways it has
changed and continues to change scientific processes today, and
the fact that freely shared scientific knowledge can encourage
young people to become scientists.